intellectualproperty

In an attempt to live up to its age-old motto to not be evil, Google has just added 79 more patents to its Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge . Enacted in March of this year, the pact was designed to encourage ...

The Android-based gaming console GameStick was just pulled from Kickstarter, according to an email we just received from Kickstarter support. Its project page is no longer accessible, and the only information given ...

Remember back in December when the International Trade Commission ruled on a Microsoft complaint from 2010 that Motorola's Android products infringed on seven of its patents, siding with Microsoft initially on one ...

If you've been following the latest bub around the hub, you may remember Apple's recent scuff with Shenzhen-based Proview Technology -- the Chinese outfit that holds the local trademark on the name "iPad." Not only ...

While there's been plenty of legal wrangling between Apple and Samsung in Federal courtrooms lately, it's been awhile since we've had news from the parties' parallel proceedings occurring in the ITC . No longer. ...

Yuval Koren is not pleased. For those unaware, he's the CEO of Eye-Fi , the company that has practically written the rules on embedding WiFi into SD cards . If you blinked last week, you probably missed the SD ...

Google's been buying a fair amount of IP over the past several months from IBM , and now the Big G has acquired seven new patent applications from the now-defunct search engine, Cuil. Back in 2008, Cuil aimed to ...

We were waiting for the details of Apple's new lawsuit in its global battle against Samsung, and now that the court has posted the complaint, we have them. These fresh allegations claim Sammy has... you guessed it, ...

In the face of overwhelming opposition from just about every major technology company and the general public , the US Senate and House have decided to delay votes on the anti-piracy bills known as PIPA (Senate) and ...